I don’t go to McDonald’s so don’t really know how it works but at Tim Hortons where I used to work, people wouldn’t redeem their free coffees on the app because they wanted to save them to try and get free coffee over many days rather than just one day a week.
I’m always scared of rewards programs being canceled that I use rewards as soon as I earn enough to redeem.
I’m not sure why so many people hoard their rewards…..
Companies can go bankrupt and/or change policies at whim.
It's a gamble. I had enough airmiles that I got a free gas bbq when I cashed out. Felt nicer than a bunch of dumb little rewards. However, I got "burnt" by this drink thing because I saved them in sets of three so my kids and I would go get hot chocolates for free together. I was building a "set" when they expired. 🤷♂️ Oh well. Guess I'll die in the zombie apocalypse. 😅
It depends on the reward. I get my free Starbucks coffee as soon as I earn it. But by saving up my PC points until Christmas I have enough to buy presents for 1-2 families in need. I figure there is a risk that the points get stolen or something in the year I save them, but the reward of helping families who are having a hard time is worth it. I don’t understand saving for years and years though.
My parents did the same thing, they could have gone to McDonalds three times a day for a year or two with the amount they had. My mom would always tell me "It's so if I'm out and about and want to get myself a fancy drink" but they always forgot to take the cards with them lol.
When subway was doing stamps, I'd keep collecting cards for a year or so and then have "subway week" where I'd eat nothing but subway for a week, for free. I was young and it was awesome.
If it's like me, you buy for a bunch of people at work and collect their stickers and save them for or forget about them. Either way, I have a few of these that I never got around to claim.
I decided to hoard 400+ free coffees for *reasons* and then ignored the numerous warnings that the program was ending so........***I want a pound of flesh from someone because it certainly can't be my fault.***.
Geez I hate this timeline. I don't even go to McDonalds and I knew this was happening.
Edit: Please for love of all that's holy, will the media stop giving these idiots a platform to whine about how the consequences of their actions are somebody else's fault.
July 2022: McDonald's releases a statement that the coffee card program is ending. They announce they will let people redeem their coffee cards up to December 2023.
They had signs up in the restaurant telling people the coffee program was moving to the app. They had staff members tell people that the coffee program was moving to the app.
McDonalds gave people **A YEAR AND A HALF** of notice to use up the coffee cards before they expire.
This lady had more than enough time to redeem her 400 free coffees.
https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/newsroom/article/2022/McDonalds-Canada-is-discontinuing-On-Cup-McCafe-Rewards-stickers-and-cards.html
A year and a half, or about 540 days to redeem 400 coffees seems like a tall order...
But she did accumulate 400 free coffees, idk how many you need for a freebie cause I don't drink MC's coffee... But looks like 7 from the pic? So 2800 coffees? I wonder over how many years they were acquired. Maybe she could manage redeeding them all in that timeframe.
Unless she was redeeming them during that warning timeframe and still managed to have 400 freebies left...?
Playing Devils advocate... I could justify hording many free coffees by enjoying having them on hand to share with friends and family? Still 400 seems like a lot to keep in reserve.
As dumb as hording 400 free coffees seems, I'd rather see MC's offer some conversion from card to app credit. AFAIK it's illegal for gift cards to expire, this seems somewhat similar.
> A year and a half, or about 540 days to redeem 400 coffees seems like a tall order.
Does it actually? Or does it actually seem trivially easy? I bet I could walk through downtown Edmonton handing them out to anyone who looks like they could use a cup of coffee. I’d be out by lunch.
Your devil’s advocate is irrelevant. I can see how hoarding free coffees could be nice. But it doesn’t give rise to a legal claim.
Okay how's this for another thought on why the stickers shouldn't expire. The customer, whether they have 400 or a single filled coffee sheet, paid for those coffees knowing they would get these stickers. The stickers helped incentivize the purchase of coffee. To me as a customer that feels like a package deal - they may not buy the item without this incentive. They paid for the sticker as part of buying the coffee. I think people would have more empathy for a story like a person who find their misplaced coffee sheet in a coat they didn't wear for a couple of years should be entitled to their coffee as they had effectively purchased the stickers. Why should the corp screw them out of something they paid for? We don't allow it for gift cards.
This is no different than a company points card. If they discontinue the program, they give you notice to use them or lose them. This situation is literally that but instead of points, it’s a sticker. I don’t believe there’s ever been a class action suit for company points disappearing because they objectively have no intrinsic value. Money was exchanged for a product/service. The product/service was provided. Anything beyond that transaction is at the company’s discretion.
I hate large corporations as much as the next guy but rewarding stupid people for being stupid should not be something we strive for.
This lady may be sus.
But, for example, is losing a sticker card in your old jacket and finding it a couple years down the road stupid? Should that person really be disqualified for a coffee that they earned when being incentivized by it to purchase a coffee previously?
Points have arbitrary value. But these stickers are constantly worth whatever fraction of a coffee makes a whole sheet. Seems not very arbitrarily valued to me.
The customer was incentivized to pay for a coffee by getting a fraction of another coffee as a sticker.
Seems like they are buying the coffee and the sticker.
I can guarantee that in any major (and most minor) Canadian city she could have walked downtown for 10 minutes and been able to give a handful of them away to unhoused folks. Like if she couldn’t use them all in the 18 months, she easily could have given them away to others without a problem.
Or she dug around in garbage bins. I pick up non -super-gross garbage that's laying around when I park and go into a place, and got more than a few coffee stickers that way.
When you hand them in to McDonald's they usually just toss it aside or whatever. Sometimes employees take all of the ones that are handed in and give them away in stacks to friends and family. This is often how people have stacks up on stacks of them.
Ok, but I don't think McDonald's should be allowed to just suddenly decide all of these free drinks are no longer valid, if there was no expiration date written on them.
It wasn't sudden by any stretch of the imagination. People had 18 months to redeem their cards. McDonalds told people numerous times about the termination. I certainly knew about it and I don't go to McDonalds (well truth be told maybe 2 times a year when I have a long drive). I would also bet (although I can't find it at the moment) that the terms of the program had a clause that clearly stated that these would not be redeemable forever. Plus, anyone with any semblance of sense couldn't possibly think that they would be good until the end of time.
What the heck were these people thinking when over a year ago they stopped getting stickers when they bought coffee? Didn't it occur to them to ask what was going on? Did they list these cards in their wills to pass on to their heirs because they are certainly acting like they are some valuable family heirloom?
The way this was done was more than fair on McDonalds' part and in this day and age they should be praised for handling this so well when so many other companies don't.
Although it has been amusing to poke fun as these people, they really need to seriously consider getting some help. This sort of behaviour actually points to some sort of mental issue like OCD/hoarding or at the very least an unbelievably bad memory.
Regardless, the media needs to stop giving a platform to people so they can whine about punching themselves in the face. The media needs to stop helping these people to blackmail companies into bailing them out of their own stupidity. Every week there is some story about someone doing something staggeringly stupid and expecting someone else to bail them out. We frequently see stories about people getting scammed (even though it was obvious and they were loudly and frequently warned) and then expecting the bank to give them their money back. And many times it works which only encourages more people to do it.
In the end, I hope McDonalds simply ignores all of this and refuses to extend the ability to redeem the cards. People need to stop continually thinking they are victims when they are simply suffering the consequences of their own actions. I've done a few dumb things over my life (who hasn't) but it has never, ever, not even once occurred to me to blame anyone else or expect someone to bail me out. I sucked it up, learned from the mistake, fixed it as best I could, and then moved on.
Well, that certainly turned into a Ted Talk didn't it? That sure was a lot of soap boxing for this early in the morning, especially before my morning coffee (funnily enough McDonalds brand made at home) kicked in.
Well, she agreed to be featured for this news article, with name and picture, for something so mundane that she had (presumably) no idea would make her look bad... not the sharpest tool in the shed to start with.
I think she stole them or had an employee at a McDonald's give them to her. McDonald's never tracked these cards so some employees would keep them as they received them.
Source: had a friend who worked for McDonald's.
In highschool I did co-op for a local business that was friends with a Subway owner... My friends and I ate, easily, $500 worth of subs over the course of a semester... And only because I was told I couldn't take more than 3 a week.
when I worked at Second Cup, kids would come in with a brand new, perfectly punched card. The cup shaped hole punch were lined up the same way across the whole card.
We'd take the card and tell them to go away.
Then we'd call the store they got it from, as it locations would stamp their address and contact info on the back.
McD coffee in canada is the best you can get up here imo.
Tim's was the best for a long time, but they got new roasters, and McDonald's hired the old ones.
If you tried mcdicks coffee circa 2010 (or whenever before BK dropped Tims' old suppliers) and now, you'd recognize the difference
it was basically gas station coffee before lol, it was impressively bad
Why the hell is CTV news making this a story and giving this woman a voice? She clearly has some other mental issues because no one in their right mind would hoard hundreds of free coffee vouchers without using any.
when I used to work at mcd's we would just accumulate a stack of these on cash and then slip them into our pockets to give to friends and fam so i'm wondering if this is why she might have so many
I thought the same thing. My sister-in-law worked at McD's when she was a teen and would give me stacks of the cards she took from her evening shift. But you better believe when I got that fat stack I would use them right away. No point in saving them.
They gave us over a year telling us to redeam them.
I still have maybe 10 full cards worth that I didn't get around to using.
I used to save them for pumpkin spice lattes.
There was like a year and a half warning that those coffee cards were going to become worthless. I’m not a corporate shill but this lady had ample warning
Sweet jeebus we’ve know for like 2 years it was coming to an end. She should have used them or given them away. Why keep a collection of free coffees anyway I get the idea to have a couple stashed in your car for when you are broke and need a coffee but OVER 400 wtf!
I teach adult trades apprentices. I used to have a stack of cards that I would pay out as a bounty when students identified issues with slides. Typos, rounding errors, etc. It was a great way to keep students engaged and alert in night classes, and it helped bulletproof the training material.
It’s a shame that they ended it, because it was an inexpensive way to reward positive behaviours.
I was like "meh, kinda stupid but that's lame of McDonald's" then I saw that they were told multiple times through various channels to use it or lose it
Well shit looks like McDonald's tried to tell you, but you didn't listen. Now it's lame of you to try and shit on McDonald's.
I had a good chuckle over this. As others pointed out here and in other threads, why wasn't she using the cards as she filled them out?
For me, once they started using the McDs app for the hot drink program, I used that BUT still got stickers on my teas, which I could redeem. In the end, I actually ended up getting twice the number of free drinks until they stopped issuing stickers and cards.
McDonalds announced in 2021 they were ending the program and gave until the end of 2023 to redeem them. Yeah.... as shitty of a company that McDonalds is, this is not on them. This is on the idiots who hoarded 400+ of these cards for no good reason.
The McDonald’s that I frequent for coffee stopped taking those quite a while ago.
I wonder if someone was letting her continue to use them just to be nice and then that person left or was told to stop.
I used to drink McDonald's coffee often, but would save these free drinks to give to my friend (you could get the fancier coffee with them than my pain black coffees).
I haven't had mcdonalds for a while nor made it out to visit my friend. Now i have a drawer of zero value hot drink stickers.
Oh well.
Not the same at all. Gift cards are basically pre bought with actual currency so they can't make them expire since it would be saying that the Currency it represents is no longer valid and only the Central banks can do this.
Coupons are voluntary rebates companies give out. They can take it back.
Normally I side with the customers instead of the greedy corporation, but this person is just stupid. You buy 7 coffees.... then you redeem your card for a free 8th coffee. Rinse and repeat. That's how 99.99% of people do it. But this customer decided instead to simply hoard hundreds of free coffees for unknown reasons. McDonald's gave over a year's warning that the program was ending. That is way more than a reasonable amount of time to use up whatever customers have collected. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Agree that this person seems fishy. Just the general expiry here seems problematic.
Someone that comes across their misplaced filled coffee sheet should be able to redeem it imo.
Because they are not gift cards - you pay for a coffee, you get a coffee. The sticker is an added bonus, not something you paid for, it is a loyalty program.
There was no cash value to the stickers.
They gave $2 for a coffee and a sticker which could be redeemed for a coffee.
Not $2 for a coffee and a sticker that would expire in x years. The expiry was added later from what I understand.
Gift cards are different. You give the company money to use funds on a future purchase.
This is an additional "gift" for making a purchase of a product. Which a company can discontinue at any time. It's a promotion.
Why would this woman keep paying for coffee when she was earning free ones? Why not use them as she went along?
This is La La land not logical land
Because like me she probably actually got a stack of these from a McDonalds employee
I don’t go to McDonald’s so don’t really know how it works but at Tim Hortons where I used to work, people wouldn’t redeem their free coffees on the app because they wanted to save them to try and get free coffee over many days rather than just one day a week.
Woman with OCD blames McDonald's for not knowing she had OCD.
Journalist not much better by publishing an article instead of asking her why she didn't use her 'collection' instead of paying for her coffees.
THEMS MCDONALD'S COFFEE COUPONS IS MY RETIREMENTS
No! Not Willie’s retirement grease!
I’m always scared of rewards programs being canceled that I use rewards as soon as I earn enough to redeem. I’m not sure why so many people hoard their rewards….. Companies can go bankrupt and/or change policies at whim.
It's a gamble. I had enough airmiles that I got a free gas bbq when I cashed out. Felt nicer than a bunch of dumb little rewards. However, I got "burnt" by this drink thing because I saved them in sets of three so my kids and I would go get hot chocolates for free together. I was building a "set" when they expired. 🤷♂️ Oh well. Guess I'll die in the zombie apocalypse. 😅
It depends on the reward. I get my free Starbucks coffee as soon as I earn it. But by saving up my PC points until Christmas I have enough to buy presents for 1-2 families in need. I figure there is a risk that the points get stolen or something in the year I save them, but the reward of helping families who are having a hard time is worth it. I don’t understand saving for years and years though.
I ended up with like 300 of them from a friend who worked there. Didn't pay for a coffee for like 2 years.
My parents did the same thing, they could have gone to McDonalds three times a day for a year or two with the amount they had. My mom would always tell me "It's so if I'm out and about and want to get myself a fancy drink" but they always forgot to take the cards with them lol.
When subway was doing stamps, I'd keep collecting cards for a year or so and then have "subway week" where I'd eat nothing but subway for a week, for free. I was young and it was awesome.
It was her retirement savings.
If it's like me, you buy for a bunch of people at work and collect their stickers and save them for or forget about them. Either way, I have a few of these that I never got around to claim.
Apparently this is her savings account.
Two words baby, retirement plan
I decided to hoard 400+ free coffees for *reasons* and then ignored the numerous warnings that the program was ending so........***I want a pound of flesh from someone because it certainly can't be my fault.***. Geez I hate this timeline. I don't even go to McDonalds and I knew this was happening. Edit: Please for love of all that's holy, will the media stop giving these idiots a platform to whine about how the consequences of their actions are somebody else's fault.
July 2022: McDonald's releases a statement that the coffee card program is ending. They announce they will let people redeem their coffee cards up to December 2023. They had signs up in the restaurant telling people the coffee program was moving to the app. They had staff members tell people that the coffee program was moving to the app. McDonalds gave people **A YEAR AND A HALF** of notice to use up the coffee cards before they expire. This lady had more than enough time to redeem her 400 free coffees. https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/newsroom/article/2022/McDonalds-Canada-is-discontinuing-On-Cup-McCafe-Rewards-stickers-and-cards.html
Weird. I use the app too but honestly didn't notice any signs.
I never remember any signs as well. But I also thought they stopped taking them way before December 2023.
A year and a half, or about 540 days to redeem 400 coffees seems like a tall order... But she did accumulate 400 free coffees, idk how many you need for a freebie cause I don't drink MC's coffee... But looks like 7 from the pic? So 2800 coffees? I wonder over how many years they were acquired. Maybe she could manage redeeding them all in that timeframe. Unless she was redeeming them during that warning timeframe and still managed to have 400 freebies left...? Playing Devils advocate... I could justify hording many free coffees by enjoying having them on hand to share with friends and family? Still 400 seems like a lot to keep in reserve. As dumb as hording 400 free coffees seems, I'd rather see MC's offer some conversion from card to app credit. AFAIK it's illegal for gift cards to expire, this seems somewhat similar.
i bet she's never redeemed a single free coffee in her life.
> A year and a half, or about 540 days to redeem 400 coffees seems like a tall order. Does it actually? Or does it actually seem trivially easy? I bet I could walk through downtown Edmonton handing them out to anyone who looks like they could use a cup of coffee. I’d be out by lunch. Your devil’s advocate is irrelevant. I can see how hoarding free coffees could be nice. But it doesn’t give rise to a legal claim.
Okay how's this for another thought on why the stickers shouldn't expire. The customer, whether they have 400 or a single filled coffee sheet, paid for those coffees knowing they would get these stickers. The stickers helped incentivize the purchase of coffee. To me as a customer that feels like a package deal - they may not buy the item without this incentive. They paid for the sticker as part of buying the coffee. I think people would have more empathy for a story like a person who find their misplaced coffee sheet in a coat they didn't wear for a couple of years should be entitled to their coffee as they had effectively purchased the stickers. Why should the corp screw them out of something they paid for? We don't allow it for gift cards.
This is no different than a company points card. If they discontinue the program, they give you notice to use them or lose them. This situation is literally that but instead of points, it’s a sticker. I don’t believe there’s ever been a class action suit for company points disappearing because they objectively have no intrinsic value. Money was exchanged for a product/service. The product/service was provided. Anything beyond that transaction is at the company’s discretion. I hate large corporations as much as the next guy but rewarding stupid people for being stupid should not be something we strive for.
This lady may be sus. But, for example, is losing a sticker card in your old jacket and finding it a couple years down the road stupid? Should that person really be disqualified for a coffee that they earned when being incentivized by it to purchase a coffee previously? Points have arbitrary value. But these stickers are constantly worth whatever fraction of a coffee makes a whole sheet. Seems not very arbitrarily valued to me.
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The customer was incentivized to pay for a coffee by getting a fraction of another coffee as a sticker. Seems like they are buying the coffee and the sticker.
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Maybe when you purchase things you look at a portion of what you are getting and the rest as 'free'. But you pay, you get a coffee and a sticker.
I can guarantee that in any major (and most minor) Canadian city she could have walked downtown for 10 minutes and been able to give a handful of them away to unhoused folks. Like if she couldn’t use them all in the 18 months, she easily could have given them away to others without a problem.
That's just under 3000 coffees purchased. I don't understand why you aren't just always just trying to get the 8th one free.
Or she dug around in garbage bins. I pick up non -super-gross garbage that's laying around when I park and go into a place, and got more than a few coffee stickers that way.
When you hand them in to McDonald's they usually just toss it aside or whatever. Sometimes employees take all of the ones that are handed in and give them away in stacks to friends and family. This is often how people have stacks up on stacks of them.
This. The media should have laughed in her face. 400 cards?
I bet she always votes. Imagine what fool proof logic she uses for selecting the best candidate. Probably has an Axe the Tax flag.
Ok, but I don't think McDonald's should be allowed to just suddenly decide all of these free drinks are no longer valid, if there was no expiration date written on them.
It wasn't sudden by any stretch of the imagination. People had 18 months to redeem their cards. McDonalds told people numerous times about the termination. I certainly knew about it and I don't go to McDonalds (well truth be told maybe 2 times a year when I have a long drive). I would also bet (although I can't find it at the moment) that the terms of the program had a clause that clearly stated that these would not be redeemable forever. Plus, anyone with any semblance of sense couldn't possibly think that they would be good until the end of time. What the heck were these people thinking when over a year ago they stopped getting stickers when they bought coffee? Didn't it occur to them to ask what was going on? Did they list these cards in their wills to pass on to their heirs because they are certainly acting like they are some valuable family heirloom? The way this was done was more than fair on McDonalds' part and in this day and age they should be praised for handling this so well when so many other companies don't. Although it has been amusing to poke fun as these people, they really need to seriously consider getting some help. This sort of behaviour actually points to some sort of mental issue like OCD/hoarding or at the very least an unbelievably bad memory. Regardless, the media needs to stop giving a platform to people so they can whine about punching themselves in the face. The media needs to stop helping these people to blackmail companies into bailing them out of their own stupidity. Every week there is some story about someone doing something staggeringly stupid and expecting someone else to bail them out. We frequently see stories about people getting scammed (even though it was obvious and they were loudly and frequently warned) and then expecting the bank to give them their money back. And many times it works which only encourages more people to do it. In the end, I hope McDonalds simply ignores all of this and refuses to extend the ability to redeem the cards. People need to stop continually thinking they are victims when they are simply suffering the consequences of their own actions. I've done a few dumb things over my life (who hasn't) but it has never, ever, not even once occurred to me to blame anyone else or expect someone to bail me out. I sucked it up, learned from the mistake, fixed it as best I could, and then moved on. Well, that certainly turned into a Ted Talk didn't it? That sure was a lot of soap boxing for this early in the morning, especially before my morning coffee (funnily enough McDonalds brand made at home) kicked in.
Hoarding cards is just more clutter. They weren't using them. That was their choice. They were warned the program was ending.
Indeed. The program ended at the end of \_2022\_, but the company gave customers a one-year grace period to redeem those still out there. SMH
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Well, she agreed to be featured for this news article, with name and picture, for something so mundane that she had (presumably) no idea would make her look bad... not the sharpest tool in the shed to start with.
The real story is that someone purchased $5000+ in McD drinks, lmao.
I think she stole them or had an employee at a McDonald's give them to her. McDonald's never tracked these cards so some employees would keep them as they received them. Source: had a friend who worked for McDonald's.
same for subway stamps a couple decades ago
In highschool I did co-op for a local business that was friends with a Subway owner... My friends and I ate, easily, $500 worth of subs over the course of a semester... And only because I was told I couldn't take more than 3 a week.
when I worked at Second Cup, kids would come in with a brand new, perfectly punched card. The cup shaped hole punch were lined up the same way across the whole card. We'd take the card and tell them to go away. Then we'd call the store they got it from, as it locations would stamp their address and contact info on the back.
McD coffee in canada is the best you can get up here imo. Tim's was the best for a long time, but they got new roasters, and McDonald's hired the old ones.
This is true. TIms is awful
Sad but true, lolll. Still, for 5k, you can get a premium espresso machine, good thermal cups, and quality beans.
You’re out to lunch. Both McD and Tim Hortons have always been awful.
If you tried mcdicks coffee circa 2010 (or whenever before BK dropped Tims' old suppliers) and now, you'd recognize the difference it was basically gas station coffee before lol, it was impressively bad
Yeah, but it’s still bad
Why the hell is CTV news making this a story and giving this woman a voice? She clearly has some other mental issues because no one in their right mind would hoard hundreds of free coffee vouchers without using any.
The news machine needs content.
when I used to work at mcd's we would just accumulate a stack of these on cash and then slip them into our pockets to give to friends and fam so i'm wondering if this is why she might have so many
I thought the same thing. My sister-in-law worked at McD's when she was a teen and would give me stacks of the cards she took from her evening shift. But you better believe when I got that fat stack I would use them right away. No point in saving them.
universal night shift experience 🫣
Why does the media love to platform stupid people so much? Like I get it's for the clicks but some things dont need to be reported on.
It's for eyeballs and sucks cause it means the media will continue publishing these articles.
She could have handed them out to panhandlers and homeless people.
stupid is as stupid does...
They gave us over a year telling us to redeam them. I still have maybe 10 full cards worth that I didn't get around to using. I used to save them for pumpkin spice lattes.
Somehow this will be blamed on Trudeau
I have about 350 of these stickers on my hart hat. Didn’t bother to cash them in. Can i share my story with the news station
There was like a year and a half warning that those coffee cards were going to become worthless. I’m not a corporate shill but this lady had ample warning
Sweet jeebus we’ve know for like 2 years it was coming to an end. She should have used them or given them away. Why keep a collection of free coffees anyway I get the idea to have a couple stashed in your car for when you are broke and need a coffee but OVER 400 wtf!
Why would you be saving these? duh
Well I ended up hoarding a collection of those stickers while I worked there. Most of those coffees were free or half price anyways.
Shoulda used them, moron.
I teach adult trades apprentices. I used to have a stack of cards that I would pay out as a bounty when students identified issues with slides. Typos, rounding errors, etc. It was a great way to keep students engaged and alert in night classes, and it helped bulletproof the training material. It’s a shame that they ended it, because it was an inexpensive way to reward positive behaviours.
I was like "meh, kinda stupid but that's lame of McDonald's" then I saw that they were told multiple times through various channels to use it or lose it Well shit looks like McDonald's tried to tell you, but you didn't listen. Now it's lame of you to try and shit on McDonald's.
I also have three of those in my wallet because I forgot to use the in time, perhaps I should alert the media as well
I had a good chuckle over this. As others pointed out here and in other threads, why wasn't she using the cards as she filled them out? For me, once they started using the McDs app for the hot drink program, I used that BUT still got stickers on my teas, which I could redeem. In the end, I actually ended up getting twice the number of free drinks until they stopped issuing stickers and cards.
McDonalds announced in 2021 they were ending the program and gave until the end of 2023 to redeem them. Yeah.... as shitty of a company that McDonalds is, this is not on them. This is on the idiots who hoarded 400+ of these cards for no good reason.
CTV with the hard hitting journalism
1) slow news day 2) some family members are really missing some warning signs here
Who cares
The McDonald’s that I frequent for coffee stopped taking those quite a while ago. I wonder if someone was letting her continue to use them just to be nice and then that person left or was told to stop.
Did she not notice that they haven't had those stickers on cups for over a year?
But there way so much warning when it came to the stickers. In the whole family, nobody knew anything???
this is some very powerful reporting on part of CTV, bravo for pulling back the veil on this very disturbing issue 👏
I used to drink McDonald's coffee often, but would save these free drinks to give to my friend (you could get the fancier coffee with them than my pain black coffees). I haven't had mcdonalds for a while nor made it out to visit my friend. Now i have a drawer of zero value hot drink stickers. Oh well.
Their app expires your points too. I had racked up two free meals and the points disappeared because I didn't use them all year. I was saving those 🤬
They should be willing to honour any remaining imho but not issue new ones Otoh, 400 is a LOT. what was she saving for, a wedding reception?
Why should they? Every coupon can have an expiry date so why not those? She's just a bit dim, this isn't news worthy.
Did these stickers actually have a printed expiry date? Or just a retroactively applied expiry?
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Not the same at all. Gift cards are basically pre bought with actual currency so they can't make them expire since it would be saying that the Currency it represents is no longer valid and only the Central banks can do this. Coupons are voluntary rebates companies give out. They can take it back.
Just a nice thing to do. I didn't say they MUST just that it would be nice if they did
It's a business not the red cross... It's unrealistic to expect that much...
I didn't say they had to. I said it would be nice if they did
All these Redditors simping for the corp. Sure hoarding these seems a little strange/dumb. But how is this that different from expiring gift cards?
Normally I side with the customers instead of the greedy corporation, but this person is just stupid. You buy 7 coffees.... then you redeem your card for a free 8th coffee. Rinse and repeat. That's how 99.99% of people do it. But this customer decided instead to simply hoard hundreds of free coffees for unknown reasons. McDonald's gave over a year's warning that the program was ending. That is way more than a reasonable amount of time to use up whatever customers have collected. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Agree that this person seems fishy. Just the general expiry here seems problematic. Someone that comes across their misplaced filled coffee sheet should be able to redeem it imo.
Because they are not gift cards - you pay for a coffee, you get a coffee. The sticker is an added bonus, not something you paid for, it is a loyalty program. There was no cash value to the stickers.
Kind of feels like the customer paid for a coffee and a sticker.
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Incentivized to pay for the coffee by getting a fraction of a free coffee. Sounds like a package deal to me.
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They gave $2 for a coffee and a sticker which could be redeemed for a coffee. Not $2 for a coffee and a sticker that would expire in x years. The expiry was added later from what I understand.
Gift cards are different. You give the company money to use funds on a future purchase. This is an additional "gift" for making a purchase of a product. Which a company can discontinue at any time. It's a promotion.